aloeveracious

Adult | Not White | I'm fine with any pronouns | DMs and ask box open to all

[aloeveracious]

I just figured out the password for my old Discord account so mutuals DM me if you want to add me on there.

[jadziacore]

this caption from memory alpha is killing me. "consider reassociation" is THE funniest way to describe the most passionate kiss in the franchise. they're analyzing the pros and cons. straight up pondering their rapport. weighing various options regular style. iconic

[nyantara]

the notion of the land of jerusalem as jewish homeland that they were exiled from and have special claim to is both fundamental to zionism and has to some extent existed in jewish scripture and life almost continously for two thousand years.

see, judaism is just another religion whose scripture can be deployed for evil. the rest of us don't really have to care about the complicated bargains antizionist jews have to make to reconcile their faiths.

the secular bargain is this – your faith can be practiced and its practice should be protected in so far as you do not harm either believers or non believers. their is a higher authority than gods and priests, of human reason and democratic consensus that judges the moral worth of your actions and what counts as harm. the casteism of the vedas and puranas is the bedrock on which upper castes have long violently attempted to create a defacto apartheid. misogyny suffuses the old testament and the new and the quran. so do justifications for assimilation and violence against non believers.

the scriptural surgery and theological work for making religious life truly compatible with secular democracy can and probably should remain internal to those religions. but we don't govern societies waiting for that work to be done. and therefore whether or not israel is the mythologised israel or that jews deserve a homeland really is irrelevant to the question of whether the authority of modern day israel is illegitimate.

and that's the liberal humanist case against israel.

[busket]

did i ever tell you guys that in the mid 2010s there were a couple blogs that were talking shit about me and trying to cancel me for stupid fandom bullshit (I had a porn blog and I shipped billford oh nooo) and I had them blocked but sometimes I couldn't help ragebaiting myself and checking their blogs anyway to see what they were saying. so I used a browser extension to redirect their tumblr urls to crouton.net. and sometimes i would forget and be like "oouugh lemme see what those little shits are saying now" only to be brought to crouton.net instead. it immediately dissolved any anger or curiosity i had about what someone was talking shit about me. I was instead like "oh, crouton. thats right...looking at that stuff isnt good for me. thanks crouton" like it probably actually saved my mental health in college tbh

[bovineblogger]

this is what i was talking about by the way

[marinella-ela]

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[thepictoblr]

dude. what did you do. everyone is here.

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[catboybiologist]

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

[cosmonautroger]

[jetix]

2025-12-31

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

vulgate gwen and lance seem to have a HUGE age gap which is fascinating to me. seems like lancelot is not even born when she marries arthur??? that’s like sixteen years ish minimum right

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i don’t know what it is I’m trying to put into words exactly but the fact that arthur and guinevere are significantly older than lancelot changes a lot of how you might read things. especially like the false guinevere situation in which lancelot who is still very young (18??) is suddenly seeing the overthrow of a well-established queen and her replacement with an imposter which only gets more dramatic the longer guinevere has been queen. and he, this kind of young weird upstart knight, is the only one in court standing up to arthur about it. just a very different story than one on which they’re all on equal footing

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

probably not coincidence also that the fact that he is very young comes up literally during this exact part of the story!!! as he’s confronting arthur!!

[bester-jester]

God sent an angel down and her name is U-BLOCK ORIGIN and she has protected me ten million times. She says its not enough its only 31% but i need her to know she is everything to me.

[gonsplode]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Mutuals feel free to pick me up and drop me off in front of prime real estate that’s all mine

I will be scared but I will appreciate it

[emjoy398]

[karen13-rockleek]

☢️☢️☢️!

[prokopetz]

The Smash Bros. cast swapping anecdotes about their various evil doppelgangers and Mario getting into an argument about whether Wario counts.

[princeps-civitatus-peach]

Surprisingly, Mario is arguing that Wario does not count as he has literally never made that connection in his life. You can’t just say every fat italian in overalls is a Mario counterpart, he’s his own person with hopes and dreams. Evil hopes and dreams, but still.

Daisy, meanwhile, manages to argue very convincingly that Peach should be considered her evil doppelganger.

[aromancy]

Wario is playing Devil’s advocate because being Mario’s evil doppleganger is great for business. If he was just some guy, nobody would buy Warioware.

[skeletalheartattack]

@kamenriderhamo i am not going to let you hide this in the replies

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.